06 Feb

Posted at 11:17h in Worship

We are now gathering for face-to-face worship at Richmond Uniting. As 2021 unfolds we will also be offering online resources for worship at home for those who cannot join us. For now, the online resources will consist of the audio of the biblical reading(s) each week and the reflection (sermon). To accompany this, we are making available a written liturgy, composed by...

01 Jan

Posted at 11:37h in News, Worship

After much reflecting, we have decided to pause online worship for the month of January. Below you will find resources for worshipping at home, including a simple liturgy. Face to face worship will continue throughout January and everyone is very welcome. If you have been gathering with us online please be assured that stepping through the physical doors at Richmond Uniting...

26 Dec

Posted at 16:55h in Worship

In this audio form of worship, Rev Dr Sally Douglas introduces a simple Liturgy that can be utilised at home. See the PDF of the Liturgy below. This liturgy is intended to be spacious – with lots of room for silence, for reflecting and for personal prayer. If you are engaging in this worship alone, you may wish to have a...

24 Dec

Posted at 18:10h in Worship

We have begun worshipping again as a gathered community, but we know for some people, it is not possible yet to join us for face-to-worship. Below you will find an audio recording for worship at home that includes a full worship service that you are invited to participate in - with prayer, the bible readings, discussion and wondering questions for...

23 Dec

Posted at 14:32h in Worship

This Christmas Eve 24th December 2020 we are invited to worship at home. There is no audio worship for Christmas Eve, instead we are offering a simple written liturgy that you can use with others or on your own. In this simple, quiet service you are invited to engage with Imaginative Prayer. For more information about this way of praying (with a short...

23 Dec

Posted at 11:14h in Prayer

Imaginative Prayer is a beautiful way to pray. Drawn from St Ignatius this way of praying invites us to allow our whole being to engage with the biblical text and to allow Spirit Holy to meet us as we are (not as we think we should be). Rather than seeking to analyse a biblical passage or trying to find the ‘right’...

19 Dec

Posted at 10:22h in Worship

We have begun worshipping again as a gathered community, but we know for some people, it is not possible yet to join us for face-to-worship. Below you will find an audio recording for worship at home that includes a full worship service that you are invited to participate in - with prayer, the bible readings, discussion and wondering questions for...

16 Dec

Posted at 19:48h in Worship

Christmas Eve - Thursday 24 December We will be worshipping at home. A simple liturgy will be available soon to utilise on your own, or with others. The invitation is to light a candle at home and enter the mystery of the Christmas story in prayer and pondering (keep an eye on the ‘online worship’ section of the website for this...

11 Dec

Posted at 15:22h in Worship

Beyond foreboding – the invitation into the practice of cultivating joy We have begun worshipping again as a gathered community, but we know for some people it is not possible to join us for face-to-worship. Below you will find an audio recording for worship at home that includes a full worship service that you are invited to participate in - with...

05 Dec

Posted at 10:03h in Worship

What if peace is not the absence of conflict? This Sunday, the second Sunday in Advent, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to dive into Mark 1.1-8 and to explore what peace might be, if we are followers of Jesus. Beyond the idea of peace as the absence of conflict, we are challenged to think about peace as the call to...